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 Flying Start @ Saltash’s Babies and Preschool Bake Savoury Tarts!

The babies helped Hannah to bake cheese tarts …

They started by mixing the ingredients to make pastry, using a big spoon to help them stir!

Before squeezing and squidging the dough together, rolling it out and then using a cutter to make a round tart case each!

Cheese was added before they were baked in the oven! Yummy!

 In the preschool room the children were able to be a little more hands on and develop their coordination skills…

After measuring out their ingredients they used their strength to mix mix mix the butter into the dry ingredients.. trying to keep it all in the bowl!

They also made cheesey tarts which were very much enjoyed!

Flying Start @ Helston’s Healthy Cooking Club!

In cooking club this week the children made healthy fruit smoothies, practicing their cutting skills to chop the fruit up…

Mixing it together with the spoon before watching it be whizzzzzed up!

Ready to be drunk at snack time!

Flying Start @ Saltash Have Set Up A Shop…

The preschool children have been really interested in the story ‘Handa’s Suprise’ where the little girl collects lots of different types of fruits in different quantities.

Following on from this learning they have set up their own Fruit and Vegetable Shop!

Taking on the role of the shop keeper and the shoppers and using scales to weight the different fruit and vegetables, developing language about the weight and buying more or less.

They then used the different fruit to create some observational paintings, focusing on the colours and shapes they could see to paint.

So much learning has stemmed from this one story, and will continue over the next few weeks!

 

 

 

Flying Start @ Duchy have been practicing their writing skills…

The children in preschool have been singing their daily letters and sounds song and are now starting to link the sounds to the letters and using this to write their name!

There has been some fantastic letter formation from the older preschool children who are writing clearly recognisable letters! And also some fab emergent writing from the younger children making marks and starting to form letters.

Please continue to encourage this lots at home, spotting letters when out and about and also playing ‘I-Spy With My Little Eye’ using the sounds of the letters is a great way to practice!

Flying Start @ Duchy explore materials and textures with the little hands and feet…

The babies have enjoyed exploring different materials, using their fingers and toes and also feeling the material against their faces!

Wafting the material up high and letting it slowly fall created lots of giggles and then moved into a game of hide and peek-a-boo!